Pieous

Husband-and-wife team Josh and Paige Kaner have pulled off quite the accomplishment: They created a restaurant equally loved by families and food-obsessives. And they did it on the edge of town, and with the oddball combination of pizza and pastrami. Pieous piles the wobbly, perfumed folds of smoky beef pastrami into massive sandwiches, and their Neapolitan pizzas come out of the blazing oven charred and bubbled with a thick, chewy edge and gentle middle. Bonus points for giving us a reason to make a pit stop on our way out to the Hill Country.